SIMD Status?
Walter Bright
newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Tue Mar 4 22:57:10 PST 2008
trevorparscal wrote:
> I've read everything I can about proposals and ideas for adding some sort of
> SIMD capability to D, and I have not seen any conclusion. I am NOT trying to
> revamp the discussion of how or why - only query the status of 2 things...
>
> 1. Currently there's no way to align data on the stack, making movaps
> difficult/impossible to use properly. Is there where D still stands?
Yes.
> 2. Has there been any consensus on if or how Walter may or may not integrate
> SIMD capability into the language?
There always seems to be something more important. It's also a difficult
thing to implement.
> Obviously we have all seen the many (some very convincing) proposals,
> but whats the status?
>
> - Trevor
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